From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider (pfps@research.bell-labs.com)
Date: 10/18/01
From: Jim Hendler <james.hendler@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: DAML+OIL submission to W3C (copyright/patent) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:12:51 -0400 > > > > > >(2) we need more explicit copyright license terms. > > > >I suggest that you ammend the submission request > >to include the following text, substituting > >each of the authors for [party]: > > > > [party] hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, > > nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any > > [party] copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and > > distribute the contribution, as well as a right and license of the > > same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, > > or incorporating all or part of the contribution. [Member Company] > > further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared > > by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C. > > How about: > > [party} hereby grants to all organizations and entities a perpetual, > royalty-free... ? > > i.e. let's just put the frigging thing in public domain -- can W3C handle that? No idea. peter
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